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IACR Newsletter
The newsletter of the International Association for Cryptologic
Research.
Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 2003.
Published by the International Association for Cryptologic Research
Christian Cachin, Editor
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http://www.iacr.org/newsletter/
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Contents
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* Editorial
* Newsletter distribution
* 2002 Elections results
* List of accepted papers for Eurocrypt 2003
* Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2002
* Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Eurocrypt 2002
* Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2002
* Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Crypto 2002
* Announcements
+ Theory of cryptography conference (TCC)
+ NESSIE project announces final selection of crypto algorithms
* New reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive
* New books
* Open positions
* Calendar of events in cryptology
* IACR contact information
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Editorial
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Welcome to the 14th electronic issue of the IACR Newsletter!
Thanks to all of you who responded to my survey in the last IACR
newsletter. The results are available in the newsletter
distribution section. Surprisingly to me, you have expressed an
overwhelming preference for the full-text email distribution. Which
means that I will continue to produce the full-text version and
distribute it by email.
This newsletter issue also contains the regular announcements,
including the ever-growing list of events in cryptology.
Please send your contributions to the Newsletter to
newsletter@iacr.org
The next issue of the IACR Newsletter is scheduled for publication in
June 2003. However, announcements will be posted on the IACR Website
as soon as possible.
Christian Cachin
IACR Newsletter Editor
P.S. If you have not received the IACR Newsletter by email and would
like to receive it in the future, then please make sure that the IACR
membership directory contains your current email address. A printed
copy of the membership list is mailed yearly to all members.
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Newsletter distribution
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In the last issue of the IACR newsletter, I asked for your opinion
on the distribution medium of the newsletter. Most readers see a new
issue of the newsletter in their email inbox. They have then two
options: either turn to the web pages or read the web pages converted
to text format which I include in the email.
I wanted to know how many readers can live with the web-only option
and how many prefer to read the full-text version in the email.
The answers from 89 distinct readers (not counting a double-answer
that I spotted by coincidence) were as follows:
prefer Reminder only by email 33
prefer Full-text by email 56
Among both groups were also a few answers of the form "prefer this,
but can live with that", but these were balanced.
One reason for the popularity of the email format may be that you can
process the newsletter and absorb its information right there, in the
same way as you process other inputs in the email inbox. Apparently,
this is the preferred choice for those among us whose inbox is
equivalent to their to-do list!
I take this clear verdict -- an overwhelming majority (almost by two
to one) in favor of the email distribution -- as my duty as your
newsletter editor and will continue to produce the full-text version.
Thanks to all who responded for their input and also for all other
feedback.
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IACR 2002 Election Results
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We thank all who voted. The Election Committee is pleased to report
the results of the 2002 Election, being:
* The proposed amendment to the IACR Bylaw passes.
* Those elected for Director are:
Rebecca Wright
Ed Dawson
Jean-Jacques Quisquater
Their terms will expire on 31 December 2005.
We thank all the candidates, whether they were successful or not,
for their significant support of IACR. People such as these, who
are willing to accept an office and to then give generously of
their time and expertise, are vital to the smooth working of our
all-volunteer community.
We declare the above information to be true and correct.
--Election Committee --Witnesses
Josh Benaloh Miriam Wiggers de Vries
Yvo Desmedt Phil Hawkes
Greg Rose
The detailed results are also available on
http://www.iacr.org/elections/2002/details.html.
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Eurocrypt 2003 Papers
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Cryptanalysis I
Cryptanalysis of the EMD Mode of Operation
Antoine Joux
On the Optimality of Linear, Differential and Sequential
Distinguishers
Pascal Junod
A Toolbox for Cryptanalysis: Linear and Affine Equivalence Algorithms
Alex Biryukov, Christophe De Canniere, An Braeken, and Bart Preneel
Secure Multi-Party Computation I
Two-Threshold Broadcast and Detectable Multi-Party Computation
Matthias Fitzi, Martin Hirt, Thomas Holenstein, and Jurg Wullschleger
On the Limitations of Universally Composable Two-Party Computation
Without Set-up Assumptions
Ran Canetti, Eyal Kushilevitz, and Yehuda Lindell
Fair Secure Two-Party Computation
Benny Pinkas
Invited Talk I
Facts and Myths of Enigma: Breaking Stereotypes
Arkadiusz Orlowski and Kris Gaj
Zero-Knowledge Protocols
Resettable Zero-Knowledge in the Weak Public-Key Model
Yunlei Zhao, Xiaotie Deng, C. H. Lee, and Hong Zhu
Simulatable Commitments and Efficient Concurrent Zero-Knowledge
Daniele Micciancio and Erez Petrank
Simulation in Quasi-polynomial Time, and its Application to Protocol
Composition
Rafael Pass
Strengthening Zero-Knowledge Protocols Using Signatures
Juan Garay, Phil MacKenzie, and Ke Yang
Foundations and Complexity Theoretic Security
Nearly One-Sided Tests and the Goldreich-Levin Predicate
Gustav Hast
Efficient and Non-Malleable Proofs of Plaintext Knowledge and
Applications
Jonathan Katz
Public Key Encryption
A Public Key Encryption Scheme Based on the Polynomial Reconstruction
Problem
Daniel Augot and Matthieu Finiasz
A Simpler Construction of CCA2-Secure Public-Key Encryption Under
General Assumptions
Yehuda Lindell
A Forward-Secure Public-Key Encryption Scheme
Ran Canetti, Shai Halevi, and Jonathan Katz
Certificate-Based Encryption and the Certificate Revocation Problem
Craig Gentry
New Primitives
CAPTCHA: Using Hard AI Problems For Security
Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper, and John Langford
Concealment and its Applications to Authenticated Encryption
Yevgeniy Dodis and Jee Hea An
Cryptanalysis II
Predicting the Shrinking Generator with Fixed Connections
Patrik Ekdahl, Willi Meier, and Thomas Johansson
Algebraic Attacks on Stream Ciphers with Linear Feedback
Nicolas T. Courtois and Willi Meier
Elliptic Curves Cryptography
Counting Points on Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields of Small
Characteristic in Quasi Quadratic Time
Reynald Lercier and David Lubicz
The GHS Attack Revisited
Florian Hess
Improved Algorithms for Efficient Arithmetic on Elliptic Curve Using
Fast Endomorphisms
Mathieu Ciet, Tanja Lange, Francesco Sica, and Jean-Jacques Quisquater
Digital Signatures
A Signature Scheme as Secure as the Diffie-Hellman Problem
Eu-Jin Goh and Stanislaw Jarecki
Aggregate and Verifiably Encrypted Signatures from Bilinear Maps
Dan Boneh, Craig Gentry, Ben Lynn, and Hovav Shacham
Hypercubic Lattice Reduction and Analysis of GGH and NTRU Signatures
Michael Szydlo
Invited Talk II
Why Provable Security Matters?
Jacques Stern
Cryptanalysis III
On the Security of RDSA
Pierre-Alain Fouque and Guillaume Poupard
Cryptanalysis of the Public-Key Encryption Based on Braid Groups
Eonkyung Lee and Je Hong Park
A Theoretical Treatment of Related-Key Attacks: RKA-PRPs, RKA-PRFs,
and Applications
Mihir Bellare and Tadayoshi Kohno
Key Exchange
Provably Secure Threshold Password-Authenticated Key Exchange
Mario Di Raimondo and Rosario Gennaro
A Framework for Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange
Rosario Gennaro and Yehuda Lindell
Information Theoretic Cryptography
The Security of Many-Round Luby-Rackoff Pseudo-Random Permutations
Ueli Maurer and Krzysztof Pietrzak
New Bounds in Secret-Key Agreement: The Gap Between Formation and
Secrecy Extraction
Renato Renner and Stefan Wolf
Secure Multi-Party Computation II
Round Efficiency of Multi-Party Computation with a Dishonest Majority
Jonathan Katz, Rafail Ostrovsky, and Adam Smith
Efficient Multi-Party Computation over Rings
Ronald Cramer, Serge Fehr, Yuval Ishai, and Eyal Kushilevitz
Group Signatures
Foundations of Group Signatures: Formal Definitions, Simplified
Requirements, and a Construction Based on General Assumptions
Mihir Bellare, Daniele Micciancio, and Bogdan Warinschi
Extracting Group Signatures from Traitor Tracing Schemes
Aggelos Kiayias and Moti Yung
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Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Eurocrypt 2002
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The IACR Board of Directors met on April 28, 2002 during Eurocrypt 2002
in Amsterdam. Reports were received on the final disposition of
Asiacrypt 2001 and FSE 2002 and the status of Eurocrypt 2002, Crypto
2002, Asiacrypt 2002, Eurocrypt 2003, and Crypto 2003. Additional
reports were received on the status of the Journal of Cryptology, the
IACR Newsletter, web site, and ePrint Archive, IACR membership and
Secretariat issues, IACR finances, the Asiacrypt Steering Committee, and
on results of an exploration of costs for accepting the euro currency at
Eurocrypt.
The Board accepted a proposal to hold FSE 2003 in Lund, Sweden.
The Board accepted a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2004 in Interlaken,
Switzerland with Jan Camenisch as General Chair.
The Board voted to ask Christian Cachin to serve as Eurocrypt 2004
Program Chair.
The Board accepted a proposal to hold Asiacrypt 2004 on Cheju Island,
Korea with Kwangjo Kim as General Chair.
The Board voted to ask Pil Joong Lee to serve as Asiacrypt 2004 Program
Chair.
The Board voted to Re-appoint Cachin as Newsletter Editor for the
2002-2004 term.
The Board voted to accept sponsorship of PKC workshops beginning in
2003.
The Board decided not to set up a "partial" electronic registration
system but rather to work towards a fully-integrated system.
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Board of Directors Meeting
Eurocrypt 2002
Amsterdam
28 April 2002
Board President Clark called the meeting to order at 10:02.
Present were Benaloh, Berson, Biham, Cachin, Clark, Desmedt, Gawinecki,
Kim, Knudsen, Langford, Matsumoto, Maurer, Preneel, Rose, Schoenmakers,
Wolfe, and Wright.
Proxies were held for Dawson by Kim, for Feigenbaum by Berson, for
McCurley by Clark, and (subsequently) for Schoenmakers by Knudsen.
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Clark asked for additions to the agenda which was then approved with a
minor correction.
The minutes of the 19 August 2001 Board meeting were then approved
without objection.
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Eurocrypt 2002 General Chair Schoenmakers then gave a status report on
the conference.
He said that there had been 457 registrants including the organizing
committee and 93 students and that there were 12 accompanying persons.
He said that the computer room providing Internet access would include
10 computers and additional laptop connections but would not be ready
until Monday.
Clark asked if there were delegates from countries not previously
represented and Schoenmakers responded that he was uncertain but would
give a national overview during the Membership Meeting.
Clark asked if there had been any problems and Schoenmakers responded
that he learned late about the need to send official letters of
invitation to some delegates. Clark said that this information was now
in the Guidelines thanks to Preneel.
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Treasurer Langford then gave a report on IACR finances.
Langford circulated a report prior to the meeting indicating a surplus
of approximately $376,000 and surpluses received from each of the 2001
IACR conferences (approximately $35,000 from each of Eurocrypt and
Crypto and $3,000 from Asiacrypt).
Clark asked about Secretariat issues and Langford responded that we
would begin charging conferences directly for secretariat services at
the rate of $25 per person for Crypto and $10 per person for each of
Asiacrypt and Eurocrypt (she indicated that the larger rate for Crypto
was to cover the on-site services provided by the Secretariat).
Wright asked where the break-even points were and Langford responded
that it was 400 participants for Crypto and lower for each of Asiacrypt
and Eurocrypt.
Clark noted that this structure makes direct comparisons easier and
thanked Langford for her work.
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Schoenmakers then responded to a question about Eurocrypt 2002
proceedings by saying that they were 550 pages and thanked Eurocrypt
2002 Program Chair Knudsen for his work in creating the program and
assembling the proceedings.
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Clark then reported on issues regarding the euro currency.
He noted that one IACR member was unhappy with euros not being accepted
at Eurocrypt conferences, and Clark and Langford provided information to
the Board on their research as to costs that would be incurred to enable
acceptance of the euro.
It was reported that since the UCSB can only process credit card fees in
U.S. dollars, an alternate entity would have to be engaged to process
euro credit cards, and the costs were estimated at approximately $25 (or
30 euros) per delegate. It was noted that previous Eurocrypt
conferences had multi-currency registration, and that the process was
simplified when the UCSB began to handle Secretariat duties.
Desmedt suggested that this issue should be judged based on economics.
Schoenmakers noted the problem of forward exchange rate changes for the
euro.
Biham asked if people could use euro bank transfers, and Langford
replied that this could currently be managed only for on-site
registration.
Schoenmakers asked about the percentage of registrants that use credit
cards, and Langford responded that it was in the range of 80-90% with
the remainder of fees paid with bank transfers and some on-site cash.
Clark noted that Eurocrypt 2003 would be held in Warsaw where the euro
is not the local currency.
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Clark then discussed the Membership report which had been distributed in
advance of the Board meeting by Membership Secretary Beaver. It noted
the number of IACR members as slightly over a thousand with a rapidly
growing student membership. It was also noted that more work needed to
be done on the database to incorporate FSE and bring things up to date.
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Newsletter Editor Cachin then reported on the status of the Newsletter.
He said that the Newsletter was running smoothly but that the web site
might require some maintenance. Cachin then reported that the ePrint
server was also running smoothly but that he and Mihir Bellare must
occasionally reject submission as "out of scope".
A particular instance of a an author's complaint about a rejected
submission was then raised, and after a discussion the Board decided to
support the decision of the ePrint managers while asking that the policy
be clarified on the web site.
The Board then voted to renew Cachin's position as Newsletter Editor for
the 2002-2004 term.
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Journal Editor-in-Chief Maurer then reported on the Journal of
Cryptology.
Maurer began by reminding the Board that he is serving this year as
Editor-in-Chief jointly with his predecessor Feigenbaum. He said that
the transition had been smooth and that there would be some changes to
the Editorial Board. Maurer then noted that the backlog was fairly
short and that there had been some difficulty in filling the winter
issue. He added that he had received only eight new submissions in his
four months as Editor but emphasized that he would not reduce quality to
fill the Journal. Maurer lamented the fact that many good conference
papers are never submitted to journals and described the need to
encourage authors to publish in the Journal.
Cachin asked what kinds of papers Maurer sought, and Maurer responded
that he wanted the best papers from conferences to be re-written in
journal form and submitted to the Journal of Cryptology.
Berson suggested soliciting submissions at the beginning of IACR
conferences and during the Membership Meetings. Wright suggested
sending letters to invite particular submissions but cautioned against
pleading during Membership Meetings.
Desmedt suggested having special issues and asking Program Chairs to
solicit their best papers. Maurer responded that he had discussed
special issues with the Editorial Board and decided that this was not
the best course.
Clark wondered if the reduction in submissions was a trend due to new
publishing paradigms.
Maurer then asked the Board for an opinion as to whether he could be a
co-author on a paper submitted to the Journal.
Wright noted her experience on another journal in which the
Editor-in-Chief was required to delegate duties for a paper in which
there was a conflict of interests. Clark expressed a desire to support
Maurer on his right to submit his own work to the Journal, and the Board
agreed.
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Clark then turned to the issue of archiving. He described discussions
regarding the possible appointment of an IACR Archivist to be charged
with managing and maintaining the works to which IACR owns the
copyright.
Cachin noted that he and McCurley had assembled electronic copies of
some past conferences.
Beaver arrived at this point.
Wright suggested being careful to work in conjunction with
Springer-Verlag, and Preneel noted that final submissions to
Springer-Verlag are sometimes changed by Springer-Verlag.
Schoenmakers asked why the PDF files produced by Springer-Verlag are not
sufficient, and Preneel and Cachin responded that the IACR does not own
these files.
Clark agreed to work with Springer-Verlag on this issue and emphasized
the importance of IACR maintaining copies under its own control and
ownership.
Berson asked if the archive should include Board papers and Wright asked
if Rump Session papers should also be included.
The Board agreed that the President appoint Hilarie Orman as the IACR
Archivist for a renewable period and that she would report progress to
the Board.
Cachin noted that Board papers are available on the IACR web site and
agreed to take responsibility along with McCurley and liaise with the
IACR Archivist to assist in maintaining archives.
Desmedt suggested negotiating with Springer-Verlag to gain access to
their PDF files after one year.
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At 10:49, the Board recessed for a ten-minute break.
The Board reconvened at 10:59.
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Clark noted that lunch would be held promptly at 12:30 and said that
copies of the FSE 2003 proposal were being made.
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Clark then reported on FSE 2002 as reported to him by Vincent Rijmen and
Matt Landrock.
He said that there had been 70 submissions of which 21 were accepted and
that there were 100 participants. Because of the larger than expected
number of participants, FSE 2002 would be reporting a surplus. It was
also reported that the logistics of initiating IACR sponsorship had
caused some minor problems.
Schoenmakers said that he had been surprised by the effect of IACR dues
being paid at FSE 2002 which caused some Eurocrypt attendees to be
exempt from IACR dues.
Cachin asked about registration issues, and Langford responded that
registration had not been handled by the IACR Secretariat.
Clark noted that Eurocrypt 2003 registration forms would need a tick box
for those who were already IACR members by virtue of FSE 2003
registration.
Rose asked about those not wanting to be IACR members and Wolfe inquired
about those who had purchased membership before registration.
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The newly printed FSE 2003 proposal was then circulated.
Preneel reported that two proposals had been submitted and that Lund,
Sweden had been selected as the preferred venue.
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Desmedt moved to accept the FSE 2003 proposal for Lund, Sweden with a
minor date correction. Preneel seconded, and the motion carried 19 to
0.
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Clark then raised the issue of electronic registration for IACR
conferences.
He said that he had contacted several companies who want to handle all
registration and payment and that web hosting companies seemed to
reference only similar package services. Clark then said that he had
found one company that would be willing to simply write a front end for
us and do the web hosting. Clark described the detailed process that
would be involved and the company that would do the development work.
He noted that we would have to pay for the development but that the
company would then provide the hosting for free for one year as a trial.
Desmedt asked if the UCSB offered any similar services, and Clark
replied that it did not.
Cachin asked about the company that would be doing the development work,
and Clark provided further details.
Cachin asked if the same company could also host the IACR web site, and
Clark responded that it would be possible but recommended not making
that commitment yet.
Wright suggested that this could be good as a trial and asked about
pre-population of forms. She then asked whether this would be available
for Crypto 2003 and how it would be budgeted. Clark responded that it
could be available for Crypto 2003 and that funds would come directly
from the IACR rather than from a conference budget.
Biham asked whether this service could be added to some component of the
current IACR environment such as the ePrint server.
Clark said that a commercial agreement seemed necessary and that this
could presumably be better integrated with other IACR services in the
future.
Biham asked whether credit card security would be an issue, and Clark
agreed to check. Langford noted that the IACR Secretariat had handled
credit card numbers from other sources in the past.
Beaver expressed a concern about the new application that would have to
be learned by the Secretariat and asked whether this could be easier for
the Secretariat to use. Clark agreed to explore this issue.
Wright asked whether this development work could be performed
immediately, and Clark responded that it could.
Cachin asked who would own the resulting applications, and Clark
responded that the IACR would have ownership.
Clark said that form filling and database management were outside of the
scope of this proposal and enumerated the risks as including the fact
that this would be new work for the company and that hacking could make
this service unavailable.
Maurer expressed a desire for a more integrated approach. Biham asked
whether encrypted e-mail to the Secretariat could be used to provide a
more complete solution, and Cachin suggested the use of PGP.
Berson noted the need to select an option.
Schoenmakers suggested that this not be publicly branded as a trial.
Clark outlined two options: waiting for a more integrated approach or
going with the trial immediately.
A straw poll indicated a slight preference for waiting, and Clark agreed
to hold this for further discussion in committee.
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Crypto 2002 General Chair Wright then reported on the status of the
conference.
She said that there had been a large number (175) of submissions and
that there were about 38-39 acceptances (a rate of 21-22%). She said
that things were generally running smoothly.
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Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair Wolfe then reported on the status of the
conference.
He said that things were going well and noted that the New Zealand
dollar had strengthened.
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Kim then reported on Asiacrypt 2001 for General Chair Dawson.
He circulated a report showing a final surplus of $2,307.88.
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Kim then reported on Asiacrypt 2004 for Asiacrypt Steering Committee
Chair Dawson.
He reported on a proposal to hold Asiacrypt 2004 at the Shilla Cheju
Hotel on Korea's Cheju Island south of the Korean mainland.
McCurley arrived at this point.
Clark asked about hotel rates, and Desmedt responded that off-season
rates were low while Kim added that this would be during the off-season.
Desmedt reported his personal experience with and support for this
facility.
Clark offered his thanks to the Asiacrypt Steering Committee.
Benaloh asked about the facilities for the technical sessions, the Kim
detailed many suitable meeting rooms at the hotel.
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Preneel moved to accept the proposal to hold Asiacrypt 2004 on Cheju
Island, Korea with Kim as the General Chair. The motion was seconded by
Berson and carried 18-0 with 1 abstention.
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Eurocrypt 2003 General Chair Gawinecki then reported on the status of
the conference.
He began by describing his exploration of support from various official
organizations but his need to have the full Program Committee in place
before obtaining such support.
Gawinecki then described the venue in the TPSA conference hall in
Central Warsaw as 20-30 minutes from the airport by taxi or train with
many nearby hotels. He noted a 553-person capacity in the venue and
meals to be held in the Quo Vadis Restaurant.
Clark asked if preparations were going well, and Gawinecki responded
that they were and that he would be discussing the full Program
Committee with Program Chair Biham.
Preneel asked how hotel booking would be handled, and Gawinecki
responded that he will be negotiating with hotels.
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Crypto 2003 General Chair Rose then reported on the status of the
conference.
He said that not much active work had yet been done and that no
substantive changed were planned.
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Preneel then reported that no formal proposals had yet been received for
Eurocrypt 2004 and that he had asked Cachin to post a request for
proposals on the web site.
Cachin said that he had done so and also taken the opportunity to
prepare with Jan Camenisch a proposal to hold Eurocrypt 2004 in
Interlaken, Switzerland with hotels within walking distance of the
conference venue.
McCurley asked how hotel booking would be handled, and Cachin responded
that it would not yet be high season and that a conference organizer
would give a good deal to handle everything.
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The Board recessed for lunch at 12:32.
The Board reconvened at 14:15.
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Discussion of the Eurocrypt 2004 proposal for Interlaken, Switzerland
then resumed.
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Desmedt moved acceptance of the Interlaken, Switzerland proposal with
Jan Camenisch as General Chair subject to details which it empowered the
President to work out during the week. Beaver seconded the motion which
carried 17-0 with 1 abstention.
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The Board then voted to ask Cachin to serve as Program Chair for
Eurocrypt 2004. [Cachin subsequently accepted.]
The Board also voted to ask Pil Joong Lee to serve as Program Chair for
Asiacrypt 2004. [Lee subsequently accepted.]
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Desmedt then initiated a discussion on the issue of quality control for
IACR conferences.
He suggested that formal requirements be established for Program Chairs
to create lists of proposed Program Committee members together with
justifications and submit these lists to the Board.
Wright suggested that this might best be limited to new conferences, and
Clark suggested expanding the Program Chair Guidelines in the
alternative.
Biham expressed a concern that this would only shift to the Board the
problem of selecting Program Committees rather than just selecting
Program Chairs. He then asked how Program Chairs would go about
soliciting Committee members. Would it be necessary to bring an ordered
list to the Board?
Benaloh expressed the view that this could be done as a condition of new
IACR sponsorship of conferences but that it did not seem reasonable to
impose such a new condition on extant conferences.
Wolfe suggested that presence on the Board's internal list should
indicate prior approval by the Board.
Wright observed that this is a procedural matter and suggested the need
for the process to be clear to both the Board and all other parties.
Berson expressed the view that this kind of micromanagement and attempts
at optimization were unnecessary since the quality of conferences is
determined by their papers.
Preneel expressed the view that the internal list should be informal.
Clark then asked for a volunteer to amend the Program Chair Guidelines,
and Preneel responded that Program Committee selection is already
discussed in the Guidelines but not enforced.
Desmedt said that he didn't care what method was used but that quality
control was important.
Clark said that he did not want the Board more involved in Program
Committee selection.
Wright suggested the possibility of having a Board member (perhaps
whichever Director is charged with maintaining the Program Chair
Guidelines) act as a mentor to the Program Chair, and Desmedt
immediately volunteered to fill the role.
Maurer said that he viewed Knudsen's role of managing Program Chair
Guidelines to include serving as a liaison between the Board and Program
Chairs, and Clark said that he thought it was clear that the role of
managing the Program Committee Guidelines included working with Program
Chairs.
Benaloh suggested that the Guidelines manager should provide a specific
contact when delivering the Guidelines, and Berson suggested that this
contact should be the Guidelines manager.
Clark then asked Knudsen to fill this role, and Knudsen agreed to do so.
Several Board members then expressed the view that this discussion had
not been productive.
McCurley suggested the possibility that the Board should create a list
of potential Program Committee members and mandate that a minimum
percentage of Program Committee members be chosen from the list.
Knudsen expressed his preference to place trust in Program Chairs, and
the discussion ceased.
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The Board then recessed for a ten-minute break at 15:55.
The Board reconvened at 16:07.
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Desmedt then raised the issue of IACR sponsorship of the PKC workshop.
He circulated a revised version of an earlier proposal that eliminated
the prior option for PKC attendees to NOT pay an IACR membership fee.
Several concerns were expressed and discussed including the 12,000 euro
loss suffered by PKC 2002, the high variability of PCK attendance, the
relatively short history of PKC, and the process for selecting members
of the PKC Steering Committee.
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After a lengthy discussion, Desmedt moved that PKC become an IACR
sponsored workshop as of 2003. Kim seconded the motion which carried
17-1 with 1 abstention.
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Clark then presented a proposal made by Feigenbaum to establish a
program for designating IACR Fellows.
Benaloh expressed the view that the decision of whether or not to
establish a fellows program should be made by the IACR membership rather
than the Board.
Desmedt suggested that such a program should distinguish between
research and service with a different selection process for each.
Berson observed that the ACM model is for fellows to have distinguished
themselves in BOTH research and service.
Wolfe suggested the possibility of reserving "fellows" for those who had
distinguished themselves for performance and using "honorary fellows"
for those who had distinguished themselves for service.
McCurley said that he was now in favor of a fellows program but that the
current proposal was sketchy. He added the view that we should not try
to match every aspect of the ACM Fellows program.
Cachin expressed his agreement with McCurley as well as his support for
a single category of fellow.
Clark expressed a concern that the proposal had too much motivation and
too little process.
Wright expressed the concern that the small size of the IACR might make
it seem as an attempt to give IACR Fellow status to people who didn't
get honors elsewhere.
Maurer noted the difference in culture between the U.S. and Europe which
he described as that in the U.S. people are more willing to promote
themselves and those around them.
Desmedt suggested that a sub-committee study this matter, and Clark said
that he would ask Feigenbaum to flesh out the proposal.
McCurley asked how decisions would be made as to the targeted number of
fellows -- would a certain number be given annually or would a certain
percentage of the membership be targeted. He also asked whether we
would want one or two categories of fellows and how and when
announcements would be made.
Clark noted that 0.2% of IEE members are fellows.
A straw poll indicated that most of the Board favored a single category
of fellows.
McCurley suggested that an award ceremony would be desirable, and Wright
suggested that it would be good to hold such ceremonies during
conferences while staggering the venues.
Clark said that he would ask Feigenbaum to respond to these issues.
________________________________________________________________________
Wright then raised the issue of the IACR logo. She noted that the
official logo was almost always replaced by a color version in web
postings.
Clark proposed endorsing the color logo and agreed to work with Cachin
to clean this up.
________________________________________________________________________
Desmedt then brought to the attention of the Board a proposal by a
member to videotape IACR conferences. The proposal included the
establishment of a Director position for a videotaper. Concerns were
also raised about FSE not always accepting credit cards and the
provision of Internet access at conferences and workshops.
Rose noted that good quality videotaping is difficult and expensive.
Wolfe observed the need to have an "opt out" option for speakers.
Clark estimated the cost at 5,000 pounds per conference.
Benaloh suggested that videotaping could be put under the purview of an
IACR archivist.
McCurley suggested instead videotaping just the Distinguished Lectures.
Clark suggested that future General Chairs might wish to obtain quotes.
McCurley noted that MSRI has a paid staff responsible for videotaping
and offered to seek details.
Rose said that he would also like to explore this issue.
In response to the other topic mentioned, Clark noted that Internet
access is generally provided at IACR conferences.
________________________________________________________________________
Clark then gave a brief follow-up on issues related to the U.S. Digital
Millennium Copyright Act.
Wright mentioned that she had drafted a letter together with Feigenbaum
on the subject.
________________________________________________________________________
In the category of other business, McCurley suggested that the Board
members think about how they feel about the health of the IACR, whether
the IACR should expand to include computer security, and whether the
IACR should do more in education.
________________________________________________________________________
An agenda was then prepared for the Membership Meeting which was
scheduled for 16:10 on Wednesday. Clark and Langford agreed to take the
lead in any discussions on the use of the euro currency.
________________________________________________________________________
The meeting adjourned at 17:23.
________________________________________________________________________
Respectfully submitted
Josh Benaloh
IACR Secretary
______________________________________________________________________________
Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Eurocrypt 2002
______________________________________________________________________________
Membership Meeting
Eurocrypt 2002
Amsterdam
1 May 2002
IACR President Clark convened the meeting at 16:10.
Raffle tickets were distributed to those in attendance for a drawing for
a bottle of Champagne.
Clark presented the meeting agenda which consisted of information about
the IACR, its Board of Directors, its finances, its conferences and
workshops, the Journal of Cryptology, the Newsletter, current issues
including euro-denominated conference registration and electronic
registration, and a period of open discussion.
Clark quoted the purposes of the IACR from the Bylaws as "to advance the
theory and practice of cryptology and related fields, and to promote the
interests of its members with respect thereto, and to serve the public
welfare." He then described the three annual IACR conferences of
Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt and the two IACR-sponsored workshops:
FSE and PKC. He then described IACR publications of the Journal of
Cryptology and the IACR Newsletter and noted the web site at
www.iacr.org.
Clark then introduced the members of the Board of Directors.
Clark next presented a brief financial report noting that IACR finances
were stable with reserves of approximately $376,000 (approximately
$350,000 at the end of 2001) and observed that costs of a typical
conference are approximately $250,000. He added that all three IACR
conferences in 2001 had returned modest surpluses and that the 2002
conferences were on track.
Clark then expressed thanks to Eurocrypt 2002 General Chair Berry
Schoenmakers and Program Chair Lars Knudsen and awarded them plaques of
appreciation.
Clark then enumerated upcoming IACR conferences and workshops as
follows.
Crypto 2002 Santa Barbara August 18-22
Asiacrypt 2002 Queenstown, New Zealand December 1-5
PKC 2003 Miami, Florida January 5-7
FSE 2003 Lund, Sweden February 24-26
Eurocrypt 2003 Warsaw, Poland May 4-8
Crypto 2003 Santa Barbara August 17-21
Asiacrypt 2003 Taipei, Taiwan November 30-December 4
PKC 2004 Singapore March 1-3
Eurocrypt 2004 Interlaken, Switzerland May 2-6
Crypto 2004 Santa Barbara dates TBD
Asiacrypt 2004 Jeju, Korea December 5-9
[N.B. Some of these dates conflict with the IACR Calendar of Events on
the web site.]
Clark then noted that bids were being sought to host Eurocrypt 2005.
Clark next proceeded to describe the Journal of Cryptology as the
premier journal in this field, and described it as being published by
Springer-Verlag and mailed to all IACR members with the cost of the
Journal accounting for roughly 75% of member dues. He introduced Ueli
Maurer as the new Editor-in-Chief who solicited high-quality papers for
the Journal and mentioned its short current backlog.
Clark then described the IACR Newsletter which is published thrice
annually and emailed to members as well as being available at
www.iacr.org/newsletter.
Clark then described current issues that were being addressed by the
Board beginning with the consideration of acceptance of currencies other
than U.S. dollars for IACR conference registration. He said that this
had been investigated and considered for the current conference and
noted that the UCSB Secretariat gives very favorable rates to the IACR
but cannot except currencies other than U.S. dollars.
Clark then presented an analysis of the currency options available to
the IACR -- specifically with regard to possible acceptance of euros.
He stated that commercial acceptance of credit cards could be managed
with a contract that either charged a percentage plus a fixed constant
per transaction or eliminated the fixed cost in exchange for higher
percentage rates. He noted that the current fee from UCSB was 2.75% and
that the best commercial deals would likely result in a fee of
approximately 5% plus a fixed cost of approximately 10 euros. He
computed the estimated additional costs would therefore total about 22
euros which were said to be much higher than the cost of foreign
currency exchange, and he asserted that it would therefore still be much
less expensive for European delegates to pay in U.S. dollars. Clark
also noted that the next two Eurocrypts would be hosted by non-Eurozone
nations and stated that the dollar would remain the only currency for at
least Eurocrypt 2003 and 2004.
Clark then raised the issue of electronic registration. He said that he
had hoped to have electronic registration in place for Crypto 2002 but
that it had been delayed until Crypto 2003 in hopes of having a full
solution rather than an interim approach.
________________________________________________________________________
At 16:30 Clark opened the floor for discussion from the membership.
________________________________________________________________________
Markus Dichtl disputed the analysis of currency costs presented by
Clark. He noted that many expenses had to be paid in the local
currency, asserted that the credit card costs should not be as high as
stated, and added that not all payments are made with credit cards. He
also noted the international character of the IACR.
Clark responded that the IACR is registered in the U.S.
Dichtl expressed the view that this policy was a humiliation to other
currencies and made the following motion:
"Fees for conferences sponsored or co-sponsored by the IACR are payable
in the local currency of the country where the conference takes place."
The motion was seconded by Evangelos Kranakis.
Discussion on the motion then began.
Paul Van Oorschot noted that the IACR is a volunteer organization and
that it was undesirable to place such impositions on those volunteering
their time.
Jurjen Bos suggested adding different currencies to the motion, but
Dichtl said that he did not want any modifications.
Desmedt asserted that many delegates are on tight travel budgets and
would not wish actions taken that would raise costs. He added his view
that economic factors outweigh nationalistic ones here.
Niels Ferguson said that as a Dutch national he is happy with U.S.
dollars and doesn't want the IACR spending time on this issue.
Brian Snow asked for clarification on the Bylaws rules about such
motions and was told that members can make motions during Membership
meetings.
Dichtl was asked if the motion required that only euros be used in
Eurozone nations, and he responded that his proposal was not
restrictive. Others suggested that the wording of the motion seemed to
restrict payments to only the local currency.
Clark then answered Snow's question more thoroughly saying that a motion
made from the floor of a Membership meeting with a 25-member quorum
would, if approved by a simple majority, be enacted or, if in the
opinion of the IACR President not reflective of the majority of IACR
members, placed on the ballot to be voted upon by the entire membership.
A member suggested the establishment of an IACR arm in Europe that would
accept payment in euros. Clark responded that this would also entail
additional costs.
Tal Rabin asked for clarification on whether both dollars and euros
could be accepted, and Dichtl responded that this would be fine.
Langford noted that two currencies cause administrative problems, and
Clark described his experience as General Chair of Eurocrypt '91, in
which two currencies were used, as being difficult. Clark then
expressed his opinion that multiple currencies were dropped for good
reason.
Clark then asked for a vote on whether future conferences should accept
payment in the local currency only. Approximately 7 members voted
"yes", approximately 93 voted "no", and approximately 15 abstained.
Clark then moved to consideration of the possibility of accepting
multiple currencies.
Cachin suggested that Dichtl's motion be amended to not exclude any
other currencies.
Moti Yung suggested that arrangements for payments be left up to the
General Chair and the IACR Board and Ferguson seconded this suggestion.
Cachin asked that we stay with the Dichtl motion, and Dichtl amended his
motion by adding the sentence: "This does not exclude payments in other
currencies if the IACR Board decides so."
Rose seconded this amendment.
A vote on the amended motion was then taken in which approximately 11
members voted "yes", approximately 100 voted "no", and approximately 20
abstained.
________________________________________________________________________
Phil Rogaway then expressed his unhappiness with the lack of a policy to
protect non-smokers at Eurocrypt and offered the following motion:
"IACR conference participants are requested not to smoke in lecture
halls, the vicinity of lecture halls, and dining areas."
Clark offered to write this recommendation into the General Chair
Guidelines.
Desmedt added his view that General Chairs should have non-smoking areas
clearly marked.
Clark repeated that he would write this into the General Chair
Guidelines.
Rogaway asked for clarification as to why this should not be adopted as
IACR policy.
Clark then suggested that the General Chair Guidelines include a request
that the conference area be designated as non-smoking. Many members
then expressed their support for a smoking ban.
________________________________________________________________________
A member then asked if it would be possible to produce a CD-ROM with the
conference proceedings. Clark responded that he thought that this would
be impractical to do within the time restrictions, and McCurley offered
to speak privately on this issue.
________________________________________________________________________
A bottle of Champagne was then raffled off to Membership meeting
attendees.
________________________________________________________________________
The Membership meeting was then adjourned at 17:10.
________________________________________________________________________
Respectfully submitted
Josh Benaloh
IACR Secretary
______________________________________________________________________________
Minutes of the Board of Directors Meeting at Crypto 2002
______________________________________________________________________________
************************ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ************************
The IACR Board of Directors met on August 18, 2002 during Crypto 2002 in
Santa Barbara. Reports were received on the final disposition of
Asiacrypt 2001 and the status of Crypto 2002, Asiacrypt 2002, Eurocrypt
2003, Crypto 2003, PKC 2003, and FSE 2003. Additional reports were
received on IACR finances, membership and secretariat issues, the status
of the Journal of Cryptology, and the IACR Newsletter, web site, and
ePrint Archive.
The Board voted to raise annual IACR dues to $88 for regular members and
$44 for student members.
The Board voted to appoint James Hughes as General Chair of Crypto 2004.
The Board voted to appoint Matthew Franklin as Program Chair of Crypto
2004.
The Board invited Don Coppersmith to deliver the 2003 IACR Distinguished
Lecture.
The Board appointed an Election Committee consisting of Benaloh, Desmedt
(Chair), and Rose (Returning Officer).
The Board held a discussion with Hilarie Orman regarding the role and
activities of the IACR Archivist.
The Board re-appointed Beaver as Membership Secretary for the 2003-2005
term.
The Board voted to place a proposal on the fall ballot to establish an
IACR Fellow designation.
The Board voted to thank Cachin and Mihir Bellare for their outstanding
work in managing the ePrint Archive.
************************ DETAILED MINUTES ************************
Board of Directors Meeting
Crypto 2002
Santa Barbara
18 August 2002
Board President Clark called the meeting to order at 10:00.
Present were Beaver, Benaloh, Berson, Clark, Dawson, Desmedt,
Feigenbaum, Gawinecki, Kim, Langford, Matsumoto, McCurley, Preneel,
Rose, Schoenmakers, Wolfe, and Wright as well as Hilarie Orman in the
role of IACR Archivist and Micky Swick who represented the IACR
Secretariat.
Proxies were held for Cachin and Knudsen by Preneel, for Maurer by
Berson, and for Biham by Gawinecki.
________________________________________________________________________
The agenda for the meeting was reviewed. It consisted of the following.
- Welcome participants - identification of proxies (Clark) (5 minutes)
- Review and approve agenda (All) (5 minutes)
- Approve Minutes from last meeting (Benaloh/Clark) (10 minutes)
- Crypto 2002 status (Wright) (5 minutes)
- Financial report (Langford) (5 minutes)
- Membership Secretary report (Beaver) (5 minutes)
- Newsletter/ePrint Archive report (Cachin) (10 minutes)
- Journal of Cryptology report (Feigenbaum) (5 minutes)
- IACR Archivist (Clark/Orman/McCurley) (5 minutes)
- 2002 Election (Clark) (10 minutes)
- Asiacrypt 2002 status (Wolf) (5 minutes)
- Eurocrypt 2003 status (Gawinecki) (10 minutes)
- Crypto 2003 status (Rose) (5 minutes)
- Program and General Chair List Maintenance (Benaloh) (15 minutes)
- Crypto 2004 General Chair Appointment (Clark) (5 minutes)
- Crypto 2004 Program Chair Appointment (Clark) (20 minutes)
- Fellows Program Proposal (Feigenbaum) (15 minutes)
- Appointment of Membership Secretary 2003-2006 (Clark) (10 minutes)
- Hosting of IACR website and associated facilities (McCurley/Black) (10
minutes)
- DMCA follow up (Clark) (15 minutes)
- IACR Logo Update (Clark) (2 minutes)
- Other Business (Clark) (no more than 60 minutes)
- Draft agenda for Membership meeting (All) (10 minutes)
- Review of action items
Additions to the agenda were as follows.
- Rose to discuss Program Committee Guidelines
- McCurley to discuss Springer-Verlag contract
- Clark to discuss 2003 Distinguished Lecture
- Clark to discuss PKC 2003
- Clark to discuss FSE 2003
- Clark to discuss virtual conference proposal of Nigel Smart
- Dawson to deliver Asiacrypt 2001 financial report
________________________________________________________________________
Clark then presented a new form that he intended to use to collect
action items in advance of preparation of Board meeting minutes.
Berson asked that minutes be circulated sooner, and Benaloh committed to
circulating draft minutes within 8 weeks.
________________________________________________________________________
Crypto 2002 General Chair Wright then reported on the status of the
conference.
She began by noting that Jim Hughes had set up a wireless network for
use by delegates and expressed her appreciation for the work that he had
done in this regard.
She then said that things were going well with approximately 440
registrants (23 of whom received fee waivers). She enumerated 333
regular registrations and 93 student registrations representing a total
of 34 countries. She said that she anticipated a modest surplus of
approximately $5,000.
Rose asked about the typical walk-in registration, and Wright responded
that it was normally around 10-15 people.
Wright then took credit for the following new features of the conference
(most of which she was largely responsible for): jackets being provided
as delegate gifts, provision of wireless networking, placement of cafe
tables outside the lecture hall, rebuilding of the beach stairway
outside of Anacapa Hall, and the scheduling of a softball game for the
free afternoon.
________________________________________________________________________
Treasurer Langford then addressed issues relating to a financial report
which had been circulated in advance of the meeting.
The report stated that IACR funds were stable, that Eurocrypt 2002 had
returned a surplus, and that early estimates were that Crypto 2002 would
return a small surplus. It also said that tax filings for 2001 had been
completed with no significant issues. It estimated the total IACR
surplus at $370,000 and suggested that it might be a little low given
total 2001 expenses of $616,225 and the undertaking of two new workshop
sponsorships. Nevertheless, the report recommended no increase in the
$80 per annum IACR dues even though this would likely result in at least
a small loss.
Data on registration figures for other conferences was then requested.
Orman responded that CHES registration had held roughly even over the
past year, but Rose reported that Usenix attendance was down roughly 10%
-- although the decline might be attributable to the venue outside of
DC.
Langford then asked that she be informed as soon as possible regarding
any new expenses, changes, or the like.
After a discussion, Langford agreed to recommend raising the IACR
membership dues to $88 per annum for regular members and $44 per annum
for student members.
Preneel noted that the largest membership expense is the Journal and
asked about a lower submission rate. Feigenbaum responded that
submissions were actually not lower but added that long-term support for
the continued existence of the Journal was still an open question.
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The Board then voted to raise the IACR dues to $88 for regular members
and $44 for student members. Motion by Langford, seconded by Desmedt,
carried 17-0 with 2 abstentions.
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________________________________________________________________________
Clark then reported on the status of the Newsletter and related items in
place of Newsletter Editor Cachin.
Clark said that Cachin had proposed moving to a new server but had
reported that everything else was working well.
Orman expressed the view that the Newsletter was long and would be more
readable if it contained more structure. She suggested a "clickable"
table of contents.
McCurley suggested that the Newsletter be smaller but more frequent
since it had become entirely electronic.
John Black arrived at this time.
________________________________________________________________________
Journal Editor-in-Chief Feigenbaum then reported on the status of the
Journal.
Co-Editor-in-Chief Maurer had distributed a report in advance of the
meeting in which he expressed concern about a reduction in the number of
submissions.
Feigenbaum reported that there had been some confusion regarding the
submission numbers and that they were not lower. She added that the
fall, winter, and spring issues were already full and that work was
progressing on the summer issue. She suggested that this was a nearly
ideal backlog.
Feigenbaum then suggested that the Board have a discussion at some point
regarding the continuation of the Journal in paper form.
Desmedt offered his thanks to Feigenbaum for her efforts and noted that
the Journal had become the fifth ranked publication in the Scientific
Citation Index -- ahead of the Journal of the ACM.
McCurley then noted that the contract for the Journal would soon need to
be renegotiated and volunteered to add this to his negotiations with
Springer-Verlag regarding the Proceedings contract.
Feigenbaum suggested that the Springer-Verlag LINK service was
inconvenient because of the need to use a shared password and that much
material was not available on LINK.
McCurley said that Springer-Verlag had been reluctant to guarantee full
availability of material.
Feigenbaum asked if we necessarily wanted to continue with
Springer-Verlag.
Orman asked whether Springer-Verlag owned the name "Journal of
Cryptology", and McCurley responded that the IACR owned the name.
Orman asked whether Feigenbaum's concern about the LINK password was a
matter of security or convenience, and Feigenbaum responded that it was
convenience.
Gawinecki said that access to Proceedings would be nice, and Preneel
asked if a new Proceedings CD-ROM was planned. McCurley replied that
there were no such plans.
Clark then assigned an action item to McCurley to work on contracts with
Springer-Verlag and to Cachin to distribute the current LINK password to
the membership.
________________________________________________________________________
Membership Secretary Beaver then reported on membership issues.
Beaver quoted from a report that was distributed electronically the
following day.
He mentioned a new username and password for LINK access that would be
distributed shortly.
He said that IACR membership (as of May) had fallen to 1108 in 2002 from
1129 in 2001. He also reported that the membership included 781 men,
129 women, and 198 who had not indicated a gender.
Beaver then reported on the findings of the Information Technology
Committee regarding provision of membership services. He said that
"KAVI" may be able to provide membership services similar to those
provided by the UCSB Secretariat and that the costs were estimated at
$6,000 per annum. He said that this option would be investigated
further by the Information Technology Committee.
Clark asked about the condition of the current IACR database. Beaver
responded that FSE delegates were not yet in the database.
Desmedt noted that "secret members" who had elected not to have their
names published needed to be made known to the Election Returning
Officer.
Clark then asked that appropriate database statistics be made available
to the entire membership.
Benaloh asked why Beaver was classifying members by gender at all, and
Beaver expressed a view that describing the tabulated results of the
collected data could help to identify possible inequities. Wright
suggested that this might me done less explicitly, and Rose suggested
that when this data is collected (such as for Crypto housing) a footnote
be included to explain why this data is being collected. Beaver later
confirmed that the reason for collecting the data in the first place was
for UCSB housing purposes.
________________________________________________________________________
Clark then detailed the appointment of Hilarie Orman to the role of IACR
Archivist. He said that Orman would assemble a catalogue of candidate
materials for archiving in conjunction with McCurley and Cachin.
Orman then requested available information on IACR materials in order to
make them permanently accessible.
Clark expressed a desire for an on-line archive, and Orman said that she
had obtained electronic copies of the last four years of IACR
conferences.
McCurley asked what the goal was and where these materials would be
stored. Orman responded that the goal was to increase access.
Feigenbaum asked if paper copies could be scanned to provide electronic
access. Orman responded that this could be done but that the primary
focus would be on electronic source media.
Feigenbaum then noted that LaTeX versions of most Journal articles were
available.
Clark then described the terms of reference for the Archivist role as
determining what is available and where it is found and filling in holes
in current availability.
Clark then took upon himself the action item of asking Program Chairs to
send Orman electronic versions of all IACR conference papers.
Orman then asked what materials were covered by the Springer-Verlag
contract, and McCurley responded that all IACR conferences and workshops
were covered.
Clark then requested that all people with relevant data sources provide
these data to Orman.
McCurley then returned to the issue of the purpose of archiving and
expressed the view that if the purpose were to increase access, then
this would be encumbered by copyright issues. He then suggested that
the real purpose of archiving should be to protect materials to maintain
a distribution ability. Preneel then expressed the view that archiving
and distribution are related and suggested that it might be preferable
to negotiate with Spring-Verlag for materials they already have
available.
Clark reminded the Board that Springer-Verlag has exclusive paper
publication rights for three years and non-exclusive rights thereafter.
Clark then said that he would circulate terms of reference for the
Archivist position to the Board.
McCurley then asked if the rump session materials should be archived,
and most Board members seemed to feel that at least the rump session
program should be maintained.
Preneel took upon himself the action item of updating the General Chair
Guidelines to reflect the role of the Archivist and asking Knudsen to do
the same for the Program Chair Guidelines.
________________________________________________________________________
The Board then recessed for a ten-minute break at 11:21.
The Board reconvened at 11:32.
________________________________________________________________________
Clark noted that there would be a break for lunch at 12:30 and suggested
re-arranging the agenda by dealing with selection of General and Program
Chairs after lunch and bringing other items forward.
________________________________________________________________________
Clark then addressed the issue of elections and appointment of an
Election Committee. He noted that the terms of Kim, Maurer, and Preneel
were expiring and that all three of their positions would be open.
An Election Committee was then appointed consisting of Benaloh, Desmedt,
and Rose. [It was subsequently decided that Desmedt would act as
Election Committee Chair and that Rose would serve as Returning
Officer.]
McCurley noted that an announcement regarding the upcoming elections
should be made at the forthcoming Membership meeting.
________________________________________________________________________
Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair Wolfe then reported on the status of the
conference.
He said that everything was on track and noted that the boat to be used
for the excursion had been recently refurbished and should provide a
good experience for all attendees.
________________________________________________________________________
Asiacrypt 2001 General Chair Dawson then presented final financial
figures for the conference.
He said that there had been 164 paid delegates and 4 stipends given and
that even though the conference had set a break even point at 200
attendees, a surplus of $2,307.88 had been returned.
________________________________________________________________________
Eurocrypt 2003 General Chair Gawinecki then reported on the status of
the conference.
He said that a preliminary version of the web site was ready and that a
variety of hotels would be available. He noted in response to a
question that the Hotel Sofitel would be the venue for the Board
meeting.
McCurley asked that Gawinecki and other General Chairs report their
experiences with the General Chair Guidelines and suggest any necessary
improvements.
________________________________________________________________________
Crypto 2003 General Chair Rose then reported on the status of the
conference.
He said that everything was steady and that he anticipated no major
changes although he was considering having different regional wines
featured each night.
McCurley suggested that the effects of wireless network access in the
meeting room should be monitored. McCurley also noted that hotels are
often difficult to book in Santa Barbara and suggested providing more
information with advanced registration.
Desmedt suggested that a briefing of the IACR Officers on the status of
Asiacrypt 2003 be scheduled.
________________________________________________________________________
McCurley then raised the issue of contract negotiations with
Springer-Verlag and circulated a draft contract. He then described the
terms of an agreement in principle which included IACR maintaining
ownership of copyrights and Springer-Verlag receiving exclusive paper
publication rights for three years and non-exclusive paper publication
rights thereafter. He asked whether it was necessary to add an explicit
clause carving out the ePrint Archive's right to continue as is.
Desmedt asked if it would be possible to obtain on-line access to
proceedings, and McCurley responded that it would be expensive.
Feigenbaum asked if researchers had had trouble with access, and Rose
reported an example of a difficulty.
Beaver suggested that the ability to browse indices would be useful.
Berson expressed a concern that the relationship between the IACR and
Springer-Verlag was too dependent upon a single person at
Springer-Verlag, and McCurley responded that he had worked to establish
other contacts.
Beaver asked if the contract should be reviewed by a lawyer, and Clark
responded that it had been decided not to do so.
Wolfe asked if the IACR should accede to Springer-Verlag's wish to have
German jurisdiction, and McCurley replied that he had done some research
on the issue and saw no reason to object.
Rose suggested avoiding getting too deep into "legalese".
Clark asked if there were objections to signing the contract, and, after
some discussion, no objections were raised.
Clark then set an action item for Cachin to ensure that the ePrint
Archive include a statement that work submitted to the ePrint Archive
should not be identical to work appearing elsewhere.
________________________________________________________________________
McCurley then raised the issue of hosting of the IACR web site. He
suggested that it was desirable to have a dedicated IACR machine to
obtain maximum flexibility and configurability.
John Black said that Cachin wanted a dedicated server that was managed
full-time by a third party.
Clark said that the Information Technology Committee should meet to
select a suitable service.
Feigenbaum asked why we were contemplating changes, and McCurley
responded that Cachin would like to be able to delegate access.
Clark then created an action item to have the Information Technology
Committee (consisting of Beaver, Desmedt, Langford, McCurley, and
Wright) explore alternative ways to support the needs of the IACR and
report back to the Board by the end of January.
________________________________________________________________________
The Board then recessed for lunch at 12:37.
The Board reconvened at 13:15.
________________________________________________________________________
Desmedt then reported on the status of PKC 2003.
He said that there had been 104 papers submitted and that everything
seemed fine.
________________________________________________________________________
Preneel then reported on the status of FSE 2003.
He said that everything was progressing well.
Wright noted the need to be careful with overlapping IACR conference and
workshop registration periods to ensure that correct dues payments are
collected.
________________________________________________________________________
Clark then raised the issue of Program Chair selection methods.
Clark had circulated in advance of the meeting a proposed process for
adding candidates to a selection list.
Benaloh said that he didn't want formal candidate lists to be maintained
but instead wanted lists to remain informal.
Feigenbaum said that the original intention was to simply maintain a
list of suggested Program Chairs without structure, and she added that
she had wanted to maintain the informal nature.
Clark said that he had had a perception of the lists as being more
formal with a view that all candidates on these lists had already been
deemed suitable.
Berson said that he recalled the original purpose of these lists as
solely to maintain an institutional memory. He then asked if the
process was not working and what needed to be done to improve it.
Clark then expressed the view that the Board should ask that Program
Chair recommendations not be included in proposals.
Preneel suggested that any recommendation of a Program Chair should
include a short supporting statement.
Clark then said that he did not feel that it was necessary to maintain
formal lists.
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The Board voted to ask James Hughes to serve as General Chair for Crypto
2004.
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[James Hughes subsequently agreed to serve in this role.]
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The Board voted to ask Matthew Franklin to serve as Program Chair for
Crypto 2004.
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[Matthew Franklin subsequently agreed to serve in this role.]
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The Board voted to ask Don Coppersmith to deliver the 2003 IACR
Distinguished Lecture at Asiacrypt 2003.
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[Don Coppersmith subsequently agreed to deliver this lecture.]
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The Board recessed for a five-minute break at 14:30.
The Board reconvened at 14:38.
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The issue of Program Chair Guidelines was then raised.
Rose asked about Program Committee size noting that 175 submissions were
received by Asiacrypt 2002. He expressed the view that consistency of
reviewing is difficult if the Program Committee is too large.
Preneel suggested that this should be the responsibility of the Program
Chair.
Clark suggested considering two separate issues: consistency or Program
Committee work and amount of work per Committee member.
Rose expressed the view that Committee members need to understand their
responsibilities.
Preneel suggested that resubmissions make it desirable to have some
overlap between successive Program Committees.
Clark proposed that the latest Program Committee Guidelines be posted as
soon as possible, and there were no objections to this proposal.
Rose suggested that independent Program Committees would be useful.
Wright noted that the Program Chair Guidelines currently suggest an
overlap with previous Program Committees.
Desmedt then suggested extending conferences to accommodate more papers.
He also suggested parallel sessions.
Clark then suggested having a discussion by email in advance of the next
Board meeting.
Schoenmakers suggested that Program Chairs communicate with prior
Program Chairs.
Benaloh suggested that future Program Chairs be official observers on
prior Program Committees.
Desmedt then suggested that Program Chairs should be observers at Board
meetings.
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Clark then initiated a discussion of IACR logos.
He said that a color logo was in progress.
Schoenmakers noted that the Eurocrypt logo is constantly reinvented and
suggested that this might be simplified.
Wright asked whether other variants would be permitted.
Clark expressed the view that variants should not be permitted and that
the IACR logo should not be changed. He added his view that conferences
should be able to add other distinctive logos.
________________________________________________________________________
Feigenbaum then initiated discussion of a proposal to create an IACR
Fellows designation.
Feigenbaum asserted that the Board must decide whether or not to support
the idea.
Benaloh said that he wants this to be decided by the membership rather
than the Board.
Clark said that he preferred this be decided by the Board.
Desmedt expressed the desire that the idea be separated from the
process.
Rose suggested that the Board should make a decision and then take that
decision to the membership.
Feigenbaum asked if anyone thought that the designation was a bad idea.
Desmedt said that he wanted separate designations for research and
service Fellows.
Feigenbaum expressed the opinion that a Fellow should be a model citizen
of the IACR and not necessarily a brilliant researcher.
Clark observed that at Eurocrypt there was a consensus that the proposal
lacked sufficient detail and that greater detail had now been provided.
Berson asked why we would want to do this. Feigenbaum responded that it
would recognize senior members who have been excellent citizens and can
use the designation to better represent the IACR and that it would also
give better standing to deserving individuals.
Berson said that he felt uncomfortable because such a designation would
possibly benefit him and Board members but supports the idea because of
his expectation that it would benefit the field.
Desmedt suggested that Fellows might be able to obtain grants more
easily and reiterated his view that the designation not be given for
service.
Rose expressed the opinion that members of a selection committee would
be likely to be very self-critical.
Clark asked for a straw pole to get the mood of the Board. Ten members
expressed support for the idea and seven abstained.
Feigenbaum then expressed the view that the process used by the ACM was
good. It consists of a Fellowship Committee with long terms and a
rotating chair that receives nominations from and for any ACM members.
She said that it targets a maximum of 5% of the membership to receive
the Fellow designations.
Benaloh asked how the Fellowship Committee members would be selected.
Feigenbaum responded that the selection would be made by the Board
and/or perhaps by other means. Benaloh asked if election by the
membership might be a suitable means, and Feigenbaum responded that she
thought not.
Desmedt suggested seeding the Fellowship Committee with several
luminaries selected by the Board and then have it appoint its own
members.
Clark expressed general support for the proposal but asked that a
specific proposal be tailored to the IACR.
Rose suggested that a single vote be taken as part of the fall election
ballot.
Desmedt insisted that the proposal be specific at the time of the vote.
Rose suggested that the IACR Bylaws be amended to establish a Fellowship
Committee and include general goals but not details.
Clark asked what details would be appropriate, and Desmedt asserted that
a Fellowship Committee should not be selected by a single Chair.
Rose noted that the ACM Bylaws have a simple high-level description of
the existence of ACM Fellows.
McCurley expressed the desire that a Fellowship Committee be as
independent as possible.
Rose suggested an individual be appointed as a Chair and asked to select
the first Fellowship Committee.
Clark asked for volunteers to support Feigenbaum in drafting a detailed
proposal. Berson, McCurley, Preneel, and Rose volunteered.
Clark expressed the opinion that the Bylaws should not specify process.
Feigenbaum then suggested the need to settle on a process.
Desmedt asserted that most Board members are not elected by the
membership. [A subsequent count revealed that 12 of 21 Board members
were elected directly by the membership with the remaining 9 appointed
by the Board to fill various roles.]
Feigenbaum suggested that the Board select a Fellowship Chair who then
selects 4 other Fellowship Committee members.
Clark asked if a five-member Fellowship Committee was reasonable, and
general agreement was given to the size.
Feigenbaum suggested that the Fellowship Committee be self-replacing.
Berson suggested the Committee be seeded with two people selected by the
Board.
McCurley then suggested that the Board select the first three IACR
Fellows and have them seed the Fellowship Committee to continue the
process.
Rose said that he was happy with Feigenbaum's proposal.
McCurley asked why the Bylaws should be amended, and Benaloh responded
that it would add credibility to the designation.
Feigenbaum then suggested the Fellowship Committee members serve
five-year terms, that the Board select a Fellowship Committee Chair who
would then be charged with selecting the rest of the initial Fellowship
Committee on staggered terms, and that the Committee target a maximum of
5% of the IACR membership for this designation.
Clark then asked how the Board felt about appointing a Chair who would
appoint the remaining Committee members.
McCurley asked if the Chair would be known to the membership at the time
of voting on the proposal, and the consensus was that the Chair not be
known.
Clark then proposed that the Election Committee place on the fall ballot
a proposal to establish an IACR Fellows program with an appropriate
amendment to the Bylaws and that the Board appoint two members who would
be charged with selecting three other members according to Feigenbaum's
proposal.
Desmedt then suggested that no person should simultaneously be on both
the Board and the Fellowship Committee.
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Clark moved the passage of his proposal and Rose seconded. The proposal
that the Election Committee place on the fall ballot a proposal to
establish an IACR Fellows program with an appropriate amendment to the
Bylaws and that the Board appoint two members who would be charged with
selecting three other members according to Feigenbaum's proposal carried
10-4 with 4 abstentions.
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Feigenbaum then agreed to post details of the proposal on the IACR web
page.
________________________________________________________________________
Clark then raised the issue of appointing a Membership Secretary for the
2003-2005 term.
Clark asked Beaver if he was willing to continue in the role.
Beaver said that he felt that he had gotten behind and that he wanted to
have an opportunity to catch up and work on Information Technology
issues. He added the view that transitions are difficult.
Clark then took upon himself an action item to distribute terms of
reference for the Membership Secretary position.
Beaver then left the room.
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The Board then voted to re-appoint Beaver as Membership Secretary for
2003-2005.
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Upon his return, Beaver accepted the re-appointment.
________________________________________________________________________
The Board then addressed a "virtual conference" proposal offered by
Nigel Smart.
However, it was found that there was insufficient support and bandwidth
on the Board to pursue the proposal at this time.
________________________________________________________________________
Clark then initiated a follow-up on issues relating to the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act.
He said that he was in the process of drafting a letter regarding the
DMCA and European Union directives and that he would circulate this
letter within the next four weeks.
He added that he believed that the IACR should be apolitical but noted
that these issues directly impact the ability of IACR members to do
their jobs and negatively impacts the field.
McCurley suggested many prospective recipients of Clark's letter.
________________________________________________________________________
Clark then compiled action items for the Membership meeting.
________________________________________________________________________
McCurley then asked that the Board re-affirm support for the editors of
the ePrint Archive and their editorial control.
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McCurley then moved a vote of thanks to Cachin and Mihir Bellare for
their outstanding work in managing the ePrint Archive. Berson seconded,
and the motion carried 18-0 with 1 abstention.
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The meeting adjourned at 17:08.
________________________________________________________________________
Respectfully submitted
Josh Benaloh
IACR Secretary
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Minutes of the Membership Meeting at Crypto 2002
______________________________________________________________________________
Membership Meeting
Crypto 2002
Santa Barbara
21 August 2002
IACR President Clark convened the meeting at 17:15.
Clark informed attendees that unless they'd taken action otherwise, they
were members of the IACR for 2003.
Raffle tickets were distributed to those in attendance for a drawing for
a bottle of wine.
Clark presented the meeting agenda which consisted of information about
the IACR, its Board of Directors, its finances, its conferences and
workshops, the Journal of Cryptology, the Newsletter, current issues,
and a period of open discussion.
Clark then quoted the purposes of the IACR from the Bylaws as "to
advance the theory and practice of cryptology and related fields, and to
promote the interests of its members with respect thereto, and to serve
the public welfare." He then described the three annual IACR
conferences of Eurocrypt, Crypto, and Asiacrypt and the two
IACR-sponsored workshops: FSE and PKC. He then described IACR
publications of the Journal of Cryptology and the IACR Newsletter and
noted the web site at www.iacr.org.
Clark then introduced the members of the Board of Directors.
Clark next offered his thanks to Kevin McCurley for his six years as
IACR President, his work with the IACR web site, his production of a CD
of past IACR proceedings, and his many other contributions to the IACR
and its members. Clark then presented McCurley with a plaque signed by
all of the past presidents of the IACR gratefully acknowledging his many
contributions.
Clark then presented a brief financial report noting that IACR finances
were stable with reserves of approximately $363,000 (approximately
$350,000 at the end of 2001). He added that all three IACR conferences
in 2001 had returned modest surpluses and that the 2002 conferences were
on track. He also noted that attendance at Crypto had decreased by
approximately 10% which was less of a drop than had been suffered by
many other conferences in Computer Science and related fields.
Clark then announced the decision by the Board to raise IACR annual dues
from $80 for regular members and $40 for student members to $88 for
regular members and $44 for student members.
Clark then expressed thanks to Crypto 2002 General Chair Rebecca Wright
and Program Chair Moti Yung and presented them plaques of appreciation.
He also specifically thanked Wright for her extraordinary efforts in
arranging for an IACR softball game and ensuring that the steps to the
beach were rebuilt.
Clark then enumerated upcoming IACR conferences and workshops as
follows.
Asiacrypt 2002 Queenstown, New Zealand December 1-5
PKC 2003 Miami, Florida January 6-8
FSE 2003 Lund, Sweden February 24-26
Eurocrypt 2003 Warsaw, Poland May 4-8
Crypto 2003 Santa Barbara August 17-21
Asiacrypt 2003 Taipei, Taiwan December 7-11*
*[The Asiacrypt 2003 dates have been amended to November 30 - December
4.]
Asiacrypt 2002 General Chair Henry Wolfe invited attendees to the
conference noting that there had been 175 papers submitted.
PKC 2002 General Chair Mike Burmester invited attendees to the workshop
and solicited sponsors.
It was also noted that as a newly IACR-sponsored workshop, PKC would
afford attendees their first opportunity to pay their 2004 IACR
membership dues.
Clark then solicited proposals to host conferences and workshops in
2005.
Clark next reported on the Journal of Cryptology noting that the
Editor-in-Chief position was in the process of being passed from
Feigenbaum to Maurer. He noted that the Journal of Cryptology is the
premier journal in the field and that roughly 75% of the IACR membership
dues are used to pay for subscriptions to the Journal. He then
solicited high-quality submissions for the Journal.
Clark then reported on the Newsletter noting that Cachin had been
re-appointed as Editor. He said that a flat text version was
distributed by email thrice annually and that a richer version was
available on the IACR web site. He asked that items of interest be sent
to "newsletter@iacr.org".
Clark then asked for a straw poll as to whether members preferred that
the entire Newsletter be sent by email of that a notification and
pointer be sent instead. A large majority seemed to prefer the
notification and pointer option.
Clark then reported on the 2002 election noting that three board
positions were being vacated. He introduced the Nomination and Election
Committee consisting of Benaloh, Desmedt, and Rose and encouraged
interested people to speak with a member of the Committee.
Clark then described the IACR Fellows designation that had been put
forward by Feigenbaum. He said that the proposal included an amendment
to the IACR Bylaws that would be placed on the fall ballot.
Clark next announced the appointment of Hilarie Orman to the role of
IACR Archivist and said that past IACR publications were being
catalogued in co-operation with Springer-Verlag.
Clark then turned to the issue of electronic registration for IACR
conferences. He said that the Board had appointed an Information
Technology Strategy Committee and hoped to have electronic registration
in place for Crypto 2003.
Clark then described the LINK access to publications provided by
Spinger-Verlag. He noted the URLs of link.springer-ny.com and
link.springer.de and provided a suitable user name and password for
access. He then gave a brief demonstration of the service and noted
that the earliest available entries were all Cryptology-related. He
said that the access password would be emailed to IACR members and
agreed to explore with Springer-Verlag the possibility of including
earlier volumes of the Journal of Cryptology.
________________________________________________________________________
At 17:43 Clark opened the floor for discussion from the membership.
________________________________________________________________________
Rich Schroeppel asked if a referendum mechanism could be added to the
IACR Bylaws and was told that such a mechanism was already in place.
A member suggested parallel sessions to enable the acceptance of more
papers while shortening the length of the conference. McCurley asked
for a show of hands regarding the possibility of parallel sessions, and
a strong majority expressed a desire to not have parallel sessions.
Niels Ferguson suggested shortening talks to enable acceptance of more
papers. Clark responded that he likes the current length of talks.
Gideon Yuval suggested that session chairs be more forceful about
enforcing the schedule.
Dan Bernstein asked that the Springer-Verlag LINK password stay
constant, and Clark responded that this was managed by Springer-Verlag.
Joe Kilian expressed discomfort with the proposed change to the Bylaws
without an opportunity for open debate. He then asked if an on-line
discussion mechanism could be made available. Clark responded that the
IACR depends upon volunteers and sought suggestions, and Feigenbaum
asked for a volunteer to act as a moderator for an on-line discussion.
Mike Burmester expressed the view that the cost of the Journal of
Cryptology was high and asked why all members had to pay for it. Clark
responded that the Journal is the premier scientific publication in its
field and expressed concern about raising costs for those who elect to
subscribe. Langford noted that the cost was approximately $60 per year.
Burmester said that he wanted Springer-Verlag to take commercial
responsibility for the Journal, and Feigenbaum responded that it does.
Both Clark and Jimmy Upton reported that subscribing directly to the
Journal is far more expensive than being an IACR member.
Victor Miller asked about the possibility of institutional memberships
in the IACR. Clark responded that institutional memberships had been
discontinued about 6-7 years ago because of the administrative burden.
A member asked if it would be possible to avoid presentation of rejected
papers at the rump session. Clark responded that this was up to the
rump session chair. McCurley suggested discouraging conference
announcements at the rump session, while another member suggested that
rejected papers were more valuable at the rump session than accepted
papers.
A drawing was then held to raffle off a bottle of wine.
________________________________________________________________________
The Membership meeting was then adjourned at 18:00.
________________________________________________________________________
Respectfully submitted
Josh Benaloh
IACR Secretary
______________________________________________________________________________
Announcements
______________________________________________________________________________
***** Theory of cryptography conference (TCC)
We would like to announce the formation of a new annual conference
called the Theory of cryptography conference (TCC). The first TCC will
be held in February 2004 in Cambridge, MA, USA. Please refer to
http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/tcc/
for information about TCC04 and the series in general.
-The Steering Committee of TCC:
Mihir Bellare UCSD, USA (Chair)
Ivan Damgård Aarhus University, Denmark
Oded Goldreich Weizmann Institute, Israel
Shafi Goldwasser MIT, USA
Johan Håstad Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Russell Impagliazzo UCSD, USA
Ueli Maurer ETH, Switzerland
Silvio Micali MIT, USA
Moni Naor Weizmann Institute, Israel
Tatsuaki Okamoto NTT, Japan
***** NESSIE project announces final selection of crypto algorithms
An open competition for the crypto algorithms of the 21st century.
The NESSIE project (New European Schemes for Signatures, Integrity
and Encryption) (2000-2003) evaluates crypto algorithms. Crypto
algorithms are the equivalent of locks, seals, security stamps and
identification documents on the Internet. They are essential to
protect our on-line bank transactions, credit cards, and personal
information and to support e-commerce and e-government. Today, the
NESSIE project announces the selection of a strong portfolio of crypto
algorithms that will protect the information society.
In September 2000, cryptographers from more than 10 different
countries all over the globe submitted 42 crypto algorithms. Since
then, researchers inside and outside the NESSIE project have tried to
attack these algorithms, attempting to find weaknesses that would
compromise their security. In addition, the efficiency of these
algorithms (how fast are they?) has been assessed. As a consequence of
this evaluation, the set of 42 contenders has been reduced to 24
candidates in September 2001. A second selection phase ending today
has reduced this number to 12; in addition, NESSIE recommends 5
algorithms that have been selected from existing or emerging
standards.
Crypto algorithms are mathematical formulas that are essential to
protect electronic information. They come in different flavours.
Encryption algorithms are essential to protect sensitive information
such as medical data, financial information and Personal
Identification Numbers (PINs) from prying eyes. The project
distinguishes between three types of encryption algorithms: block
ciphers, stream ciphers and public-key encryption algorithms. Digital
signature algorithms (in combination with hash functions) replace
manual signatures in electronic transactions. A similar role can be
played by MAC algorithms. Identification protocols allow to securely
verify the identity of the party at the other end of the line.
Standards play an important role in the choice of a cryptographic
algorithm. The NESSIE project is not a standardisation body (it does
not write NESSIE standards), but the NESSIE project forms the bridge
between the research community and the user community by testing and
comparing algorithms before standardising them. The NESSIE project
intends to input these algorithms to standardisation bodies such as
ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) and the IETF
(Internet Engineering Task Force). NESSIE has selected the following
12 algorithms from the 42 submissions; in addition, 5 well established
standard algorithms have been added to the NESSIE portfolio (indicated
with a *):
* Block ciphers:
+ MISTY1: Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan;
+ Camellia: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan and
Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan;
+ SHACAL-2: Gemplus, France;
+ AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)* (USA FIPS 197)
(Rijndael).
* Public-key encryption:
+ ACE Encrypt: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland;
+ PSEC-KEM: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan;
+ RSA-KEM* (draft of ISO/IEC 18033-2).
* MAC algorithms and hash functions:
+ Two-Track-MAC: K.U.Leuven, Belgium and debis AG, Germany;
+ UMAC: Intel Corp., USA, Univ. of Nevada at Reno, USA, IBM
Research Laboratory, USA, Technion, Israel and Univ. of
California at Davis, USA;
+ CBC-MAC* (ISO/IEC 9797-1);
+ HMAC* (ISO/IEC 9797-1);
+ Whirlpool: Scopus Tecnologia S.A., Brazil and K.U.Leuven,
Belgium;
+ SHA-256*, SHA-384* and SHA-512* (USA FIPS 180-2).
* Digital signature algorithms:
+ ECDSA: Certicom Corp., USA and Certicom Corp., Canada;
+ RSA-PSS: RSA Laboratories, USA;
+ SFLASH: Schlumberger, France.
* Identification schemes:
+ GPS: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Télécom and La
Poste, France.
No weaknesses have been identified in any of these 17 algorithms. We
believe that many of these algorithms present a significant
improvement in the state of the art.
The 10 symmetric primitives in this portofolio (4 block ciphers, 4 MAC
algorithms and 2 hash functions) can be used for free. The asymmetric
primitives RSA-KEM, RSA-PSS and SFLASH are also in the public domain.
PSEC-KEM is available under very favourable conditions. Licenses need
to be negotiated for ACE Encrypt, ECDSA and GPS, but the owners have
promised to offer reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
It is quite remarkable that none of the six submitted stream ciphers
meets the rather stringent security requirements put forward by
NESSIE.
The evaluation process has been a fully open process based on
published evaluation criteria. A significant effort has been spent by
the project team. In addition, feedback has been received from the
global cryptographic community; all comments have been made public.
The project has interacted with a project industry board, which
consists of representatives from the key European security vendors and
users. Four well attended open workshops have been held to discuss the
candidates and the evaluation results: November 2000 in Leuven (B),
September 2001 in Egham (UK), November 2002 in Munich (D) and February
2003 in Lund (S).
Detailed evaluation reports on security and performance, as well as a
document motivating the final selection are available at
http://www.cryptonessie.org.
The NESSIE project is currently writing a specification of these
algorithms which is targeted towards implementers and standardisation
bodies. NESSIE encourages the community at large to include the
algorithms in the NESSIE portfolio in standards and products.
NESSIE is a research project within the Information Societies
Technology (IST) Programme of the European Commission
(IST-1999-12324).
The project partners are: · Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium),
coordinator; · Ecole Normale Supérieure (France); · Royal Holloway,
University of London (U.K.); · Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (Germany); ·
Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Israel); · Université
catholique de Louvain (Belgium); · Universitetet i Bergen (Norway).
______________________________________________________________________________
New Reports in the Cryptology ePrint Archive
______________________________________________________________________________
(The list contains reports posted since the last newsletter issue
appeared.)
2003/034 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
On the (In)security of the Fiat-Shamir Paradigm
Shafi Goldwasser and Yael Tauman
2003/033 ( PDF )
Integral Cryptanalysis on reduced-round Safer++
Gilles Piret and Jean-Jacques Quisquater
2003/032 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
A Framework for Password-Based Authenticated Key Exchange
Rosario Gennaro and Yehuda Lindell
2003/031 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Cryptographic Tamper Evidence
Gene Itkis
2003/030 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Efficient Multi-Party Computation over Rings
Ronald Cramer and Serge Fehr and Yuval Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz
2003/029 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Universal Padding Schemes for RSA with Optimal Bandwidth of Message
Recovery
Wenbo Mao and John Malone-Lee
2003/028 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems in the Presence of Permanent and Transient
Faults
Mathieu Ciet and Marc Joye
2003/027 ( PS PS.GZ )
Cryptographic Randomized Response Techniques
Andris Ambainis and Markus Jakobsson and Helger Lipmaa
2003/026 ( PDF )
Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystems: Closing the Performance Gap to
Elliptic Curves
Jan Pelzl and Thomas Wollinger and Jorge Guajardo and Christof Paar
2003/025 ( PS PS.GZ )
Homomorphic public-key cryptosystems and encrypting boolean circuits
D.Grigoriev. I.Ponomarenko
2003/024 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
On Modeling IND-CCA Security in Cryptographic Protocols
Dennis Hofheinz and Joern Mueller-Quade and Rainer Steinwandt
2003/023 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
New identity based signcryption schemes from pairings
Benoît Libert and Jean-Jacques Quisquater
2003/022 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Did Filiol Break AES ?
Nicolas T. Courtois and Robert T. Johnson and Pascal Junod and Thomas
Pornin and Michael Scott
2003/021 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
An Online Auction Mechanism with Tradeoffs Between Bid Privacy,
Cognitive Cost and Number of Rounds
Helger Lipmaa
2003/020 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Attacks based on Conditional Correlations against the Nonlinear Filter
Generator
Bernhard L\"ohlein
2003/019 ( PS PS.GZ )
A Polynomial Time Algorithm for the Braid Diffie-Hellman Conjugacy
Problem
Jung Hee Cheon and Byungheup Jun
2003/018 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
An Authenticated Group Key Agreement Protocol on Braid groups
HO-KYU LEE, HYANG-SOOK LEE, YOUNG-RAN LEE
2003/017 ( PS PS.GZ )
Perfect Hash Families with Few Functions
Simon R. Blackburn
2003/016 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
A Threshold GQ Signature Scheme
Cheng-Kang Chu and Li-Shan Liu and Wen-Guey Tzeng
2003/015 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
A Universally Composable Cryptographic Library
Michael Backes and Birgit Pfitzmann and Michael Waidner
2003/014 ( PS PS.GZ )
Hiji-bij-bij: A New Stream Cipher with Self-Synchronizing and MAC Modes
of Operation
Palash Sarkar
2003/013 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Security Constraints on the Oswald-Aigner Exponentiation Algorithm
Colin D. Walter
2003/012 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
The number of initial states of the RC4 cipher with the same cycle
structure
Marina Pudovkina
2003/011 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Cryptanalysis of Lee-Hwang-Li's Key Authentication Scheme
Fangguo Zhang and Kwangjo Kim
2003/010 ( PDF )
Differential Fault Analysis on A.E.S.
P. Dusart, G. Letourneux and O. Vivolo
2003/009 ( PS PS.GZ )
Domain Extenders for UOWHFs: A Generic Lower Bound on Key Expansion and
a Finite Binary Tree Algorithm
Palash Sarkar
2003/008 ( PS PS.GZ )
DFA on AES
Christophe Giraud
2003/007 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
A Price Negotiable Transaction System
Huafei Zhu
2003/006 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Secure Multi-Party Computation from any Linear Secret Sharing Scheme
Ventzislav Nikov, Svetla Nikova, Bart Preneel
2003/005 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Distributing the Encryption and Decryption of a Block Cipher
Keith M. Martin, Rei Safavi-Naini, Huaxiong Wang and Peter R. Wild
2003/004 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
ID-based tripartite Authenticated Key Agreement Protocols from pairings
Divya Nalla, and K.C.Reddy
2003/003 ( PS PS.GZ )
Plaintext-dependant Repetition Codes Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers -
The AES Case
Eric FILIOL
2003/002 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Imperfect Decryption and an Attack on the NTRU Encryption Scheme
John Proos
2003/001 ( PDF )
A Mode of Operation with Partial Encryption and Message Integrity
Philip Hawkes and Gregory G. Rose
2002/195 ( PS PS.GZ )
An addition to the paper: A polarisation based visual crypto system and
its secret sharing schemes
H.D.L. Hollmann, J.H.v. Lint, L. Tolhuizen, P. Tuyls
2002/194 ( PS PS.GZ )
A polarisation based Visual Crypto System and its Secret Sharing
Schemes
P. Tuyls, H.D.L. Hollmann, J.H.v. Lint, L. Tolhuizen
2002/193 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
A Note on Ideal Tripartite Access Structures
Michael J. Collins
2002/192 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Proofs of Security for Password-Based Key Exchange (IEEE P1363 AuthA
Protocol and Extensions)
Emmanuel Bresson and Olivier Chevassut and David Pointcheval
2002/191 ( PS PS.GZ )
A Linearization Attack on the Bluetooth Key Stream Generator
Frederik Armknecht
2002/190 ( PS PS.GZ )
Parallelizable Authentication Trees
Eric Hall and Charanjit S. Jutla
2002/189 ( PS PS.GZ )
Bit-Slice Auction Circuit
Kaoru Kurosawa and Wakaha Ogata
2002/188 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks on Optimized NTRU
Jin Hong and Jae Woo Han and Daesung Kwon and Daewan Han
2002/187 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Entity Authentication Schemes Using Braid Word Reduction
Herv\'e SIBERT and Patrick DEHORNOY and Marc GIRAULT
2002/186 ( PS PS.GZ )
Zero-Knowledge twenty years after its invention
Oded Goldreich
2002/185 ( PDF )
Turing, a fast stream cipher
Greg Rose and Philip Hawkes
2002/184 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Identity Based Authenticated Key Agreement from Pairings
Liqun Chen and Caroline Kudla
2002/183 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Simple backdoors to RSA key generation
Claude Cr\'epeau and Alain Slakmon
2002/182 ( PS PS.GZ )
Oblivious Keyword Search
Wakaha Ogata and Kaoru Kurosawa
2002/181 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Counting Points on the Jacobian Variety of a Hyperelliptic Curve
defined by $y^2=x^5+ax$ over a Prime Field
Eisaku Furukawa and Mitsuru Kawazoe and Tetsuya Takahashi
2002/180 ( PS PS.GZ )
OMAC: One-Key CBC MAC
Tetsu Iwata and Kaoru Kurosawa
2002/179 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Parallel Algorithm for Multiplication on Elliptic Curves
Juan Manuel Garcia Garcia and Rolando Menchaca Garcia
2002/178 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Attack on A New Public Key Cryptosystem from ISC'02 (LNCS 2433)
Fangguo Zhang, Shengli Liu and Kwangjo Kim
2002/177 ( PDF )
two attacks on xia-you Group Signature
Jianhong Zhang Jilin Wang Yumin Wang
2002/176 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Theoretical Analysis of ``Correlations in RC6''
Masahiko Takenaka, Takeshi Shimoyama, Takeshi Koshiba
2002/175 ( PS PS.GZ )
Aggregate and Verifiably Encrypted Signatures from Bilinear Maps
Dan Boneh and Craig Gentry and Ben Lynn and Hovav Shacham
2002/174 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
A Designer's Guide to KEMs
Alexander W. Dent
2002/173 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Efficient Group Signatures without Trapdoors
Giuseppe Ateniese and Breno de Medeiros
2002/172 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
PECDSA. How to build a DL-based digital signature scheme with the best
proven security
Louis Granboulan
2002/171 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Statistical weaknesses in the alleged RC4 keystream generator
Marina Pudovkina
2002/170 ( PS PS.GZ )
An Analysis of RMAC
Jack Lloyd
2002/169 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Theoretical Use of Cache Memory as a Cryptanalytic Side-Channel
D. Page
2002/168 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
New Signature Scheme Using Conjugacy Problem
Ki Hyoung Ko and Doo Ho Choi and Mi Sung Cho and Jang Won Lee
2002/167 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Cryptanalysis of Two New Signature Schemes
Fangguo Zhang and Kwangjo Kim
2002/166 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Multi-Party Authenticated Key Agreement Protocols from Multilinear
Forms
Ho-Kyu Lee and Hyang-Sook Lee and Young-Ran Lee
2002/165 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Coercion-Resistant Electronic Elections
Ari Juels and Markus Jakobsson
2002/164 ( PS PS.GZ )
Authenticated ID-based Key Exchange and remote log-in with insecure
token and PIN number
Mike Scott
2002/163 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Man-in-the-Middle in Tunnelled Authentication Protocols
N. Asokan and Valtteri Niemi and Kaisa Nyberg
2002/162 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
On Constructing Locally Computable Extractors and Cryptosystems in the
Bounded Storage Model
Salil P. Vadhan
2002/161 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Practical Verifiable Encryption and Decryption of Discrete Logarithms
Jan Camenisch and Victor Shoup
2002/160 ( PS PS.GZ PDF )
Cryptology and Physical Security: Rights Amplification in Master-Keyed
Mechanical Locks
Matt Blaze
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New Books
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This page lists new books about cryptology, and occasionally reviews
one.
Cryptography, An Introduction
by Nigel Smart,
McGraw-Hill, 2002.
ISBN 0 077 09987 7 (PB).
Nigel Smart's Cryptography provides the rigorous detail required for
advanced cryptographic studies, yet approaches the subject matter in
an accessible style in order to gently guide new students through
difficult mathematical topics. Covering the latest developments in
cryptography, including the Rijndael algorithm chosen for the new
Advanced Encryption Standard, the OAEP padding system for RSA,
elliptic curve based systems and provable security this book is a
complete introduction to cryptography.
Part I Mathematical Background
1 Modular Arithmetic, Groups, Finite Fields and Probability
2 Elliptic Curves
Part II Symmetric Encryption
3 Historical Ciphers
4 Information Theoretic Security
5 Symmetric Ciphers
6 Symmetric Key Distribution
Part III Public Key Encryption and Signatures
7 Basic Public Key Encryption Algorithms
8 Primality Testing and Factoring
9 Discrete Logarithms
10 Key Exchange, Signature Schemes and Hash Functions
11 Implementation Issues
12 Obtaining Authentic Public Keys
13 Protocols
Part IV Security Issues
14 Attacks on Public Key Schemes
15 Definitions of Security
16 Complexity Theoretic Approaches
17 Provable Security: With Random Oracles
18 Provable Security: Without Random Oracles
Appendices
Appendix A Basic Mathematical Terminology
Appendix B Java Examples
Index
More information can be obtained from
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0077099877.html
The above site allows you to order the book for most territories.
If you wish to adopt this book for a course in North America you
should contact Betsy_Jones@mcgraw-hill.com or place an order with
McGraw-Hill... call 1-877-833-5524, 8:00AM to 4:30PM EST, Monday
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Open Positions in Cryptology
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IACR provides a listing of open positions with a focus on cryptology.
The listing is available on the Web at [1]http://www.iacr.org/jobs/
and also included in the [2]IACR Newsletter that is sent to members
three times per year.
To advertise your job opportunities, please send a description of no
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This should include an URL and further contact information. No
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for all members. We ask that commercial enterprises who want to
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contact the membership secretariat to [3]become a member of IACR.
On top of that, IACR accepts donations and is always looking for
sponsors for its conferences.
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Cambridge University, Centre for Quantum Computation
Please take note of the following job opening:
The Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation
The Cambridge Centre for Quantum Computation wishes to appoint one or
more postdoctoral researchers in theoretical quantum cryptography. The
position or positions are associated with the EU-funded project
PROSECCO, which aims to develop new quantum cryptographic protocols and
improved security analyses for quantum cryptography. Funds are available
till January 2006 and the position or positions are available
immediately.
Applicants should send a letter of application supported by a full CV
and arrange for three reference letters to be sent to: Kaija Hampson,
DAMTP, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, email:
K.K.Hampson@damtp.cam.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)1223 760 394.
Informal enquiries can be made to: Dr Adrian Kent, University Lecturer
in Quantum Information, Centre for Quantum Computation, Department of
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,
Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, U.K, email:
a.p.a.kent@damtp.cam.ac.uk Tel +44 1223 760 379.
The closing date: 7 March 2003
Salary in the range £18,265 to £27,339 pa
--
Dr Adrian Kent, University Lecturer in Quantum Information
Centre for Quantum Computation,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
University of Cambridge,
Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, U.K.
tel +44 1223 760379
(11-Dec-02, revised 16-feb-03)
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Macquarie University
Department of Computing and Centre for Advanced
Computing - Algorithms and Cryptography,
Macquarie University
One or two full time positions of Research Fellow in
Algorithms and Cryptography are available.
For more information see
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/acac/positions/
(07-Feb-03)
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Carleton University (Canada)
We have a faculty opening in Computer Science at Carleton University in
Ottawa (Canada), to strengthen our new Digital Security Group. Targeted
areas: computer security, network security, applied cryptography. Deadline:
15 January 2003 (but applications accepted until position filled). Start
date: 1 July 2003. We have a preference towards fundamental research in
practical aspects of security. For formal advertisement and contact details,
see the link at the bottom of:
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~paulv/dsg/dsgtop.html
(17-Nov-02)
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IACR Calendar of Events in Cryptology
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The IACR calendar lists events (conferences, workshops, ...) that may
be of interest to IACR members or deal with research in cryptology.
If you want to have an event listed here, please send email to
webmaster(at)iacr.org .
(The current condition for being listed here is that the description
of an event must match the word "*crypt*".)
2003
* [1]FSE 2003, February 24-26, Lund, Sweden.
* [2]8th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS), March
2-7, Palmse, Estonia.
* [3]First International Conference on Security in Pervasive
Computing, March 12-14, Boppard, Germany.
* [4]New Directions in Scalable Cyber-Security in Large-Scale
Networks: Deployment Obstacles, March 13-14, Reston (VA), USA.
* [5]International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2003),
March 24-28, Versailles, France.
* [6]Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2003, Mar 26-28,
Dresden, Germany.
* [7]2003 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'2003), March 31
through April 4, Paris, France.
* [8]Cryptographers' Track RSA Conference 2003 (CT-RSA 2003), April
13-17, San Francisco, USA.
* [9]Eurocrypt 2003, May 4-8, Warsaw, Poland.
* [10]IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 11-14, Oakland,
California, USA.
* [11]Conference in Number Theory in Honour of Professor H.C.
Williams, May 24-30, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
* [12]35th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), June
9-11, San Diego, USA.
* [13]ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'03), June 9-12, San
Diego, USA.
* [14]Workshop on Principles of Dependable Systems (PoDSy 2003),
June 22, San Francisco, USA.
* [15]2003 International Conference on Security and Management
(SAM'03), June 23-26, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
* [16]Workshop on Coding, Cryptography and Combinatorics (CCC 2003),
June 23-28, Yellow Mountain City, China.
* [17]Foundations of Computer Security (satellite workshop of
LICS'03), June 26-27, Ottawa, Canada.
* [18]3rd Central European Conference on Cryptology (TATRACRYPT
'03), June 26-28, 2003, Bratislava, Slovakia.
* [19]2003 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
(ISIT2003), June 29-July 4, Yokohama, Japan.
* [20]Eighth Australasian Conference on Information Security and
Privacy (ACISP 2003), July 9-11, Wollongong, Australia.
* [21]Security in Distributed Computing Special Track (PODC 2003),
July 13-16, Boston, USA.
* [22]7th Workshop on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC 2003), August
11-13, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
* [23]Tenth Annual Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC
2003), August 14-15, Ottawa, Canada.
* [24]Crypto 2003, August 17-21, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
* [25]Second International Workshop on Trust and Privacy in Digital
Business (TrustBus'03), September 1-5, Prague, Czech Republic.
* [26]Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES)
2003, September 7-10, Cologne, Germany.
* [27]International Workshop on Cryptology and Network Security
(CANS03), September 24-26, Miami, Florida, USA.
* [28]6th Information Security Conference (ISC'03), October 1-3,
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
* [29]Fifth International Conference on Information and
Communications Security (ICICS 2003), October 10-13, Huhehaote
City, Inner-Mongolia, China.
* [30]8th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
(ESORICS 2003), October 13-15, Gjøvik, Norway.
* [31]1st MiAn International Conference on Applied Cryptography and
Network Security, October 16-19, Kunming, China.
* [32]Third International Workshop for Asian PKI (IWAP2003), October
27-29, Kokura (Kita-Kyushu), Japan.
* [33]10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
(CCS 2003), October 27-30, Washington, DC, USA.
* [34]Asiacrypt 2003, November 30-December 4, Taipei, Taiwan.
* [35]Fourth International Conference on Cryptology in India
(Indocrypt 2003), December 8-10, New Delhi, India.
2004
* [36]Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2004), February 18-20,
MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
* [37]International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key
Cryptography (PKC 2004), March 1-4, Singapore.
* [38]Eurocrypt 2004, May 2-6, Interlaken, Switzerland.
* [39]Crypto 2004, late August, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
* [40]Asiacrypt 2004, December 5-9, Jeju Island, Korea.
Past events are [41]archived here.
References
1. http://www.iacr.org/workshops/fse2003/
2. http://www.cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/win2003
3. http://www.dfki.de/spc2003
4. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/jf/LSN.pdf
5. http://www-rocq.inria.fr/codes/WCC2003/
6. http://www.petworkshop.org/
7. http://itw2003.enst.fr/
8. http://www.rsaconference.net/rsa2003/
9. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/eurocrypt2003/
10. http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP-Index.html
11. http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/02-03/numtheory/
12. http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~bein/stoc03.html
13. http://www.iacr.org/events/
14. http://lpdwww.epfl.ch/fgaertner/podsy2003/
15. http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/2003/SAM/
16. http://www.ustc.edu.cn/conference/ccc
17. http://www.cs.stanford.edu/~iliano/fcs03/
18. http://www.elf.stuba.sk/Katedry/KM/TATRACRYPT/index.htm
19. http://www.isit2003.org/
20. http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/research/NSLabs/acisp03/index.html
21. http://www.podc.org/podc2003/security-track-cfp.html
22. http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/2003/ecc2003/announcement.html
23. http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~sac2003/
24. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2003/
25. http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/WiWi/pernul/dexa03ws/
26. http://islab.oregonstate.edu/ches/
27. http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Chuan.Wu/conference/cans03/
28. http://www.hpl.hp.com/conferences/isc03
29. http://www.cstnet.net.cn/icics2003
30. http://www.hig.no/esorics2003/
31. http://www.onets.com.cn/dhe.htm
32. http://tcsg.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/iwap03/
33. http:///
34. http://conf.ncku.edu.tw/ac03/
35. http://www.isical.ac.in/~indocrypt/
36. http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/mihir/tcc/tcc04/
37. http://pkc2004.lit.org.sg/
38. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/eurocrypt2004/
39. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2004/
40. http://www.iacr.org/conferences/asiacrypt2004/
41. http://www.iacr.org/events/archive.html
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IACR Contact Information
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Officers and Directors of the IACR (2003)
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Microsoft Research 1275 Poplar Ave #101
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Don Beaver Thomas Berson
Membership Secretary (2003-2005) Director (2001-2003)
Seagate Anagram Labs
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Eli Biham Christian Cachin
Director (2002-2004) Editor, IACR Newsletter (2002-2004)
Computer Science Department IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
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Israel Switzerland
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Jan Camenisch Alan Chin-Chen Chang
Eurocrypt 2004 General Chair Asiacrypt 2003 General Chair
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science and
Säumerstrasse 4 Information Engineering
CH-8803 Rüschlikon National Chung Cheng University
Switzerland 160, San-Hsing
Tel: +41 1 724 8279 Min-Hsiung, Chiayi
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Email: asiacrypt2003(at)iacr.org
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Director (2003-2005) Director (2001-2003)
Director, Information Security Department of Computer Science
Research Centre Florida State University
Queensland University of Technology PO Box 4530, 206 Love Building
GPO Box 2434 Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530
Brisbane, Qld 4001 USA
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Email: e.dawson(at)qut.edu.au
Jerzy Gawinecki James Hughes
Eurocrypt 2003 General Chair Crypto 2004 General Chair
Institute of Mathematics and Storage Technology Corp.
Operations Research 7600 Boone Avenue North
Military University of Technology Brooklyn Park, MN
Kaliskiego Str. 2, 00-908 Warsaw USA
Poland Tel: +1 763 424 1676
Tel: +48 22 6839556 Fax: +1 763 424 1776
Fax: +48 22 6839719 Email: jim(at)network.com
Email:
j.gawinecki(at)imbo.wat.waw.pl or
eurocrypt2003(at)iacr.org
Kwangjo Kim Lars Knudsen
Asiacrypt 2004 General Chair Director (2001-2003)
School of Engineering Technical University of Denmark
Information and Communications Dept. of Mathematics
Univ. Building 303
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Taejon, 305-348 DENMARK
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Tsutomu Matsumoto Ueli Maurer
Director (2002-2004) Editor-in-Chief, Journal of
Graduate School of Environment and Cryptology (2002-2005)
Information Sciences Department of Computer Science
Yokohama National University ETH Zürich
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Email: Email: maurer(at)inf.ethz.ch or
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Director (2002-2004) Director (2003-2005)
6721 Tannahill Drive Université catholique de Louvain
San Jose, CA 95120 Microelectronic laboratory
USA Place du Levant, 3
Tel: +1 408 927 1838 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Email: mccurley(at)swcp.com BELGIUM
Tel: +32 10 47 25 41
Fax: +32 10 47 25 98
Email: jjq(at)dice.ucl.ac.be
Greg Rose Rebecca Wright
Crypto 2003 General Chair Director (2003-2005)
Qualcomm Australia Department of Computer Science
Level 3, 230 Victoria Road Stevens Institute of Technology
Gladesville NSW 2111 Castle Point on Hudson
Australia Hoboken, NJ 07030
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Email:
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